Good Morning Musical Mi Stan Smith's

Please look back at your reading of "The End of WWI" next make a short video or piece of writing that explains how WWI ended. Please be sure to explain what an armistice is. 

Goal of the week: I can explain how WWI ended and the consequences of the Great War.

7th Grade

• Evaluate this statement "Without the US, the allies (Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the US) would not have won WWI." What evidence from the text do you have to support this position?

8th Grade:

• Treaty of Versaille
• What were the aims and motives of the victorious powers in drawing up the Treaty of Versailles?
• Was the Treaty a fair one? 
• Was the German response justified?

Humanities Extension:


Homework: Read 30 minutes and finish your Triple Entry Journal

Good Morning Lucky LeBron Soldier 10s!

7th- Private Peaceful 
8th Grade - In your reading of Private Peaceful it is clear that something is happening in the morning. What is happening? When did you realize what was going to happen in the morning?

We are starting with CNN 10 from yesterday about the executive order restricting travel to America. 


7th Grade:

• From your graph yesterday please respond to the following question:
• Why did the US have fewer soldier involved in WWI and fewer casualties?
• Read the End of WWI 
• Evaluate this statement "Without the US, the allies (Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the US) would not have won WWI." What evidence from the text do you have to support this position?

8th Grade 

• Triple Entry Journal - Find your partner and comment 
• Take a photo and submit to Schoology
• The Treaty of Versaille 
• I can explain how WWI ended 
• I can explain the consequences of WWI on Germany

Humanities Extension: Town Meeting in Ms. Bronner's Room
Homework:
Read 30 minutes

Good Morning Kindhearted Kyrie 3s!

7th Grade - Private Peaceful 
8th Grade - 10 minutes on the timer to prep for our quiz! 

I can explain how WWI ended and the consequences of the Great War.

• 7th - Graphing WWI - What is the human cost of war?
• 8th Grade - Quiz on WWI 

Humanities Extension: 

Read Private Peaceful. 

8th Grade finish Private Peaceful

Homework: 

7 - Read 30 minutes 

8 - Read the end of Private Peaceful and have your triple entry journal ready.

Good Morning Joyful Jordan XX3s

8:00-8:45 Extended TA

8:45-9:40 EXPOs/ Meeting

9:40-10:00 Town Meeting in Ms. Bronner's Room/backwards mapping from portfolio exhibit/March 17

10:00-10:40 Science assessment completion in Ms. Bronner’s room/ GID

10:40-11:00 Recess

11:00-11:45 Core 1

11:45-12:25 Core 2

12:25-12:50 Lunch

12:50-1:15 Team Read

1:15 - 2:05 Core 3

2:05-2:45 Opportunity Time/ work on portfolio exhibit

• CNN Student News
• 7th Grade please submit your WWI Projects
• How did WWI end anyways?
• The Great War - America's Library
• The Treaty of Versaille Encyclopedia Britannica
• Post WWI and Treaties - Ducksters

• Fourteen Points - Ducksters

Homework:

8th Grade - Complete your Triple Entry Journal and study for the quiz 

Good Morning Ingenious Iguanas

Private Peaceful: 8th Grade you are going to be completing a triple entry journal on the chapter you read last night and the chapter you are going to be reading tonight. Please have this finished for Monday.


Goals of the week:

I can describe how the government decision to go to war impacted individuals (locally, nationally, internationally) through a topic of personal interest. 

I demonstrate clear and purposeful communication of my learning through a medium of my choice.

I can explain how WWI ended and the consequences of the Great War.

• Please take out your WWI projects. Take a photo of your work or submit your project and please respond to the following questions:
• From your research, how did the governments decision to go to war impact individuals?
• What were your goals for meeting this piece of work? Did your goals change as you worked on it? Did you meet your goals?
• What's the one thing that you have seen in your classmates' work or process that you would like to try in your next piece?
• 7th Grade - Graphing WWI

How did WWI end?

Humanities Extension:
7th - Read Private Peaceful
8th - Work on Triple Entry Journal and Reading
Homework:
7th Grade: Read 30 minutes
8th Grade: Read 193 complete double entry journal.
Study for quiz on Monday

Good Morning Harmonious Hermit Thrush

Warm Up: Please look at this casualties of WWI graphic organizer that is on your table. In partnerships, please answer the questions and then graph the information on the paper provided. Colored pencils are on the counter. 

• Study Guide (8th Grade) quiz on Friday 

Humanities Extension: Gallery walk of the WWI expert project 

Homework:

7th Grade - Read 30 minutes 

8th Grade - Study guide and read to page 176

Good Morning Gorgeous Great Horned Owls!

Today we are going to start with the CNN 10 recap of this weekend. 

Goals of the week:

I can describe how the government decision to go to war impacted individuals (locally, nationally, internationally) through a topic of personal interest. 

I demonstrate clear and purposeful communication of my learning through a medium of my choice.

I can explain how WWI ended and the consequences of the Great War.

• Project work time - be ready to share tomorrow 

•  Learning scale review

Humanities extension:
Project work time

Homework:
Finish your expert project

Good Morning Focused Foxes

Yesterday, I was so proud of all of you for the focus and persistence I noticed during the Star reading assessment. 

We are going to start off today watching the CNN student news covering the Inauguration today. Before we begin please write a blog post about your HOPES for the new president. You also can write this in the form of a letter with advice for the new president. It can also be about your hopes for the United States at this time. Please be mindful, thoughtful and respectful. Remember to be a thinker, questioner and doer. 

8:00-8:45 Extended TA

8:45-9:40 EXPOs/ Meeting

9:40-10:00 Town Meeting in Ms. Bronner's Room

10:00-10:40 STAR make-ups/ GID

10:40-11:00 Recess

11:00-11:45 Core 1

11:45-12:25 Core 2

12:25-12:50 Lunch

12:50-1:15 Team Read

1:15 - 2:05 Core 3

2:05-2:45 Opportunity Time

Goal of the week:

I can describe how the government decision to go to war impacted individuals (locally, nationally, internationally) through a topic of personal interest. 

I demonstrate clear and purposeful communication of my learning through a medium of my choice.

• CNN Student News
• Project work time - refocus on the learning target

Homework: Projects are DUE TUESDAY!

Good Morning Eloquent Egrets!

Please make sure you have an independent reading book for today. Get a drink and use the bathroom and be ready for the Star assessment in 6 minutes! 

• Star Assessment 
• Please read when finished 

Humanities Extension:

Please work on your research projects 

Homework: Please spend 30 minutes working on your research project. 

Good Morning Delightful Doves

7th Grade: 
Make a to do list for how you are going to be using this class time for your research today. 


8th Grade: Go back to the start of chapter Twenty Five Past Three (p. 140) and look at the section of the text where Tommo is talking about "no man's land" between the trenches. Look at the images below from the Western Front during WWI. Does the author capture the setting? 




Goal of the week:

I can describe how the government decision to go to war impacted individuals (locally, nationally, internationally) through a topic of personal interest. 

I demonstrate clear and purposeful communication of my learning through a medium of my choice.

• Calendar of work for the week
• Project Work Time

Humanities Extension:

Please use this time for project work.

Homework:

30 minutes of project research time.

Good Morning Curious Cardinals!

On your blog please write down the following: 

1. What is your topic for the expert project and a sentence or two about what you know about it so far?

2. What are your research questions? What do you hope to find out?

3. What are you going to make as your artifact of learning.

Please get ready to "pitch" your project idea! 

Goal of the week:

I can describe how the government decision to go to war impacted individuals (locally, nationally, internationally) through a topic of personal interest. 

I demonstrate clear and purposeful communication of my learning through a medium of my choice.

• Calendar of work for the week
• Project Work Time

Humanities Extension:

Please use this time for project work.

Homework:

30 minutes of project research time.

Good Morning Busy Bumblebees!

Did you know that the bumblebee was just placed on the endangered species list?

8:00-8:45 Extended TA

8:45-9:40 EXPOs/ Meeting

9:40-10:00 Town Meeting in Ms. Bronner's Room

10:00-10:40 Semester Reflection on site and personalize site

10:40-11:00 Recess

11:00-11:45 Core 1

11:45-12:25 Core 2

12:25-12:50 Lunch

12:50-1:15 Survey on goal projects/OT/creativity

1:15 - 2:05 Core 3

2:05-2:45 Opportunity Time

• End of semester Humanities Reflection
• End of Semester Science Reflection

Good Morning Adventurous Anteaters

Can you believe we have gone around the alphabet twice already and are almost half way through the year! Please take a moment to reflect on your best learning moment of the year so far.

Goals of the week:

7th - I can identify types of conflict in both current and historical settings.

8th - I can explain the effects of government's going to war and the impact that it had on individuals.

CNN Student News 

Government decision and the impact on individuals - expert project

Humanities Extension:

Read Private Peaceful 

8th Grade read to page 156

Homework:

8th Grade - Read Private Peaceful to page 156

Good Morning Zany Zebras!

Pick one scene in Private Peaceful that the theme fear is evident. Please draw or describe this scene and explain how it is related to the theme of fear. 

Goals of the week:

7th - I can identify types of conflict in both current and historical settings.

8th - I can explain the effects of government's going to war and the impact that it had on individuals.

7th Grade

• Conflict Narratives from yesterday - hand into shoology
• Government decision and the impact on individuals - expert project

8th Grade:

• Government decision and the impact on individuals - expert project

Humanities Extension:

7th Grade: Private Peaceful 

8th Grade: 

Homework: 

7th Grade: Read 30 minutes in a just right book 

8th Grade: Pick your topic for your research

Good Morning Youthful Yaks

Thinking about our reading of Private Peaceful, make an inference, how do you think that the Peaceful brothers, Charlie and Tommo are going to be affected by their government going to war?

Goals of the week:

7th - I can identify types of conflict in both current and historical settings.

8th - I can explain the effects of government's going to war and the impact that it had on individuals.


7th Grade:

• Please finish your types of conflict scenario. When you finish please write a short story with three of the types of conflict in it. We will trade these stories tomorrow to identify what type of conflict you used.

8th Grade:

• Turn in an image of your Road to WWI part 2 questions to schoology
• Continue working on your chain of effects with your table grouping. When you are finished please read Private Peaceful.

Humanities Extension:

Reading Private Peaceful

Homework:

7th 30 minutes of reading out of your just right book

8th Please read to page 140 in Private Peaceful

Good Morning Xcited Xenops

Happy Mindset Monday! Starting in 2017 one of my goals is to  start of our week with a Mindset Monday - bringing in videos, music and writing about mindsets to focus us for the week!  Here is our mindset video of the week:





What is something you are going to "try" this week? It can be both in and out of school. Maybe it is something in a class, during OT or an expo.

Goals of the week:

7th - I can identify types of conflict in both current and historical settings.

• Types of Conflict Scenarios
• CNN Student News

8th - I can explain the effects of government's going to war and the impact that it had on individuals.

• Make a prediction: How will the government of England going to war impact the Peaceful brothers?
• What effect does the war have on individuals?

Humanities Extension:

Grade 7: OT Plan for the week and then Private Peaceful

Grade 8: OT Plan for the week and then Private Peaceful

Homework:

Grade 7: 30 Minutes of reading in your just right book 

Grade 8: Read to page 121

Good Morning Wise Water Buffalo!

8:00-8:45 Extended TA

8:45-9:40 EXPOs/ Meeting

9:40-10:00 Town Meeting in Ms. Bronner's Room

10:00-10:40 Get It Done in TA

10:40-11:05 Recess

11:00-11:45 Core 1

11:45-12:25 Core 2

12:25-12:50 Lunch

12:50-1:15 Team Read

1:15 - 2:05 Core 3

2:05-2:45 Opportunity Time

7th Grade

• Mystery Motivator!!!
• Finish your image for your type of conflict
• Then jigsaw - one member of each group sharing out.
• What is your type of conflict
• What is your image and what does it represent
• What is an example of your type of conflict
• Can we identify the types of conflict in the news?

8th Grade:

• Submit your project to schoology - then go into the learning scale reflection. Where are you on the scale for the causes? Where are you on the scale for the effects?
• Complete The War section 2. Please be sure to annotate your reading as you are going through the text to focus your thinking. 

Humanities Extension

7:  Read Private Peaceful 

8: Continue to work on The War section 2 

Homework: get caught up on Private Peaceful! you should be on page 106! And finish The War reading and questions due Monday. 

Good Morning Vivacious Voles!

7th Grade: read The United States Enters WWI and answer the questions
8th Grade: Please take the google form that you were sent. Then please read and respond the the questions on the Road to WWI part 2. This is also on Schoology.

Humanities Extension:
7th Grade: Read Private Peaceful
8th Grade: Causes of WWI presentations

Homework:
7th Grade: Read 30 minutes and complete your types of conflict images

8th Grade:
Read Twenty Eight Minutes Past One (p. 87-106)

Good Morning Unwavering Umbrella Birds

7th Grade: Yesterday you were so successful completing the landmine challenge. What did the group do to be successful? What was a challenge that you faced as a group? What is a strategy you used that you could use in the classroom? How were you persistant while completing this challenge?



Look at the propaganda image from England during WWI. What is the purpose of propaganda? What is this ad trying to accomplish? What role do you think propaganda played in the war?

• 7th Grade 
• Types of Conflict 
• Human v. Human - A conflict between two or more people or groups 

• Human v. Self - An internal conflict 

• Human v. Society - a person or group going against the "norms" of society, going against they way others think.

• Human v. Nature - Humans against a force of nature for example a Tsunami

• Human v. Technology - Humans against a new type of technology for example in WWI the airplane. 

• 8th Grade 
• Private Peaceful Kahoot 
• Finishing touches on presentation and then round table share out 
• How did you use creativity to showcase the causes of WWI?
• What did you learn while completing this project?

Humanities Extension:

Bronner: Present Projects

Read Private Peaceful to page 87

Homework:

7th Grade: Read 30 minutea dn finish your graphic representation of the types of conflict 

8th Grade: Finish reading the chapter in Private Peaceful

Good Morning Tiny Tasmanian Devils!

Here are a few options for your writing warm up:

1. The one word to describe my next year will be ________, and this is why…

2. Write a narrative that starts with the line "Three, two, one...Happy New Year!"

3.  Last year was successful because...

7th Grade  

• Land mine Activity 
• What was successful?
• What was challenging?
• Where did you use persistence during this activity?
• How did you communicate with your peers?

8th Grade 

• Character traits 
• On chart paper please use your book to include the following with text evidence (quotes and pages) to support your thinking
• Appearance 
• Personality -How would you describe this character to someone who has not read the book?
• Actions - Who is this character, what do they do? 
• Character traits: What do the actions tell us of this character? 
• The characters are:
• Thomas 
• Charlie
• Molly 
• Big Joe 
• Mama 
• Today is the LAST day for your causes of WWI project 

Homework:

7th Grade: Finish your documentary project if you have not handed it in. Read for 30 minutes 

8th Grade: Read the next chapter in Private Peaceful.